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Focusing on the earliest years (0-8), the new Second Edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, and current practice in the field of child development.

This edition is fully up-to-date with current policy and legislation and now includes:

• New "Research boxes" in each chapter helping students link theory to practice
• Increased coverage on children's social and emotional development
• A new companion website including a selection of free SAGE Journal articles, annotated...

This study includes chapters on: how curiosity engenders discovery; the rhythms of scientific thinking; what scientific thinking reveals about the nature of cognition; developing reflective enquiry practices; and reconsidering the role of experiment in science cognition.

Focusing on the earliest years (0-8), the new Second Edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the research, theory, and current practice in the field of child development.

This edition is fully up-to-date with current policy and legislation and now includes:

• New "Research boxes" in each chapter helping students link theory to practice
• Increased coverage on children's social and emotional development
• A new companion website including a selection of free SAGE Journal articles, annotated...

What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do not come to museums to talk, but they often do talk. This talk can drift from discussions of managing the visit, to remembrances of family members and friends not present, to close analyses of particular objects or displays. This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment that...

A useful guide to optical discs for the forensic professional or anyone that deals with optical media. Focus is on specifics that will insure proper handling and processing of discs to assure against loss of data and potential evidence. The author has been working with optical media since 1994 and is the author of a number of software products for writing optical media, recovering data from optical media and forensic examination of optical media. This is the second edition of this book and contains updated information and more focus on Blu-ray media.

In recent years there has been a movement to break down old disciplinary boundaries in the geosciences to develop a more unified view of the earth as an integrated system, but efforts to integrate solid earth and climate studies have not progressed as rapidly as other areas. Responding to this deficiency, this volume provides an in-depth examination of climate modeling--an area which can benefit enormously from the interaction between solid earth geophysical studies and climate studies. Written by eminent figures from both disciplines, this volume focuses on the role of tectonic boundary...

An Introduction to Child Development, Third Edition provides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format. It equips students with an appreciation of the critical issues, while providing balanced coverage of topics that represent both classic and cutting edge work in this vast and fascinating field.

The new edition has been fully updated and features:

• Topical research examples from current...

What do people learn from visiting museums and how do they learn it? The editors approach this question by focusing on conversations as both the process and the outcome of museum learning. People do not come to museums to talk, but they often do talk. This talk can drift from discussions of managing the visit, to remembrances of family members and friends not present, to close analyses of particular objects or displays. This volume explores how these conversations reflect and change a visitor's identity, discipline-specific knowledge, and engagement with an informal learning environment that...

An Introduction to Child Development, Third Edition provides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format. It equips students with an appreciation of the critical issues, while providing balanced coverage of topics that represent both classic and cutting edge work in this vast and fascinating field.

The new edition has been fully updated and features:

• Topical research examples from current...

This study includes chapters on: how curiosity engenders discovery; the rhythms of scientific thinking; what scientific thinking reveals about the nature of cognition; developing reflective enquiry practices; and reconsidering the role of experiment in science cognition.

This edited volume explores learning in the arts with a particular focus on understanding how learning and creativity are supported in both schools and out-of-school settings, and with learners of all ages. Written from a range of perspectives and methodological viewpoints, chapters draw upon the fields of cognitive science, art education, technology and digital arts, the learning sciences, and museum studies. Exploring connections between research and practice in art learning, and bringing together a diverse group of international researchers, this volume explores a variety of positions and...